Hedd Wyn, writer with a Welsh connection!
Hedd Wyn
Eisteddfod Bard.Connection: Born in Wales.
Winner of the National Eisteddfod 'Black Chair' 1917.
Correction: killed in the Somme and was chaired posthumously.
Hedd Wyn, real name Ellis Humphrey Evans was born in Trawsfynydd in 1887. He died on July 31 1917 in Ypres. Also known as "The Bard of the Black Chair" Eisteddfod Birkenhead 1917.